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...time when almost every mainstream retailer is craving a dose of designer cachet. These days you are nothing without your boldface co-conspirators. H&M has Madonna. Kohl's has engaged Vera Wang to produce an affordable line. Gap boasts dresses by Roland Mouret. Meanwhile, across the pond, Topshop has enlisted the taste and services of style icon Kate Moss. The upshot? Masstige has emerged as the look of the moment?arguably the biggest trend in fashion...
...Indian Summer No Longer Bundle up, take the Red line to Park Street, and go ice-skating on the Commons. You know you gotta do it once before you graduate. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Frog Pond. Boston Common. $8 skate rental, $4 admission...
...just keeps on gapping, and the U.S. military’s actions in Iraq have contributed to a political situation that’s less “independent state” and more “state of confusion” as of the new year. Across the pond, old-school Communist stronghold the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the superpower perpetually on the verge of blowing up (literally and figuratively), now claims the world’s fourth largest economy as well as the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics. But the next Red Scare...
Talk about the machine in the garden. Thoreau once famously complained that even in the woodland isolation of Walden Pond, there was no place he could escape the sound of the train whistle. Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, who designed the Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum, have made their peace with that. "We thought the trains were amazing," says Weiss. "We wanted the park's pathways to slalom down and capture the energy of those trains." So the Z-shaped pathway that Weiss and Manfredi came up with is intended to praise the forces that shape Seattle...
...election on a tread-softly foreign policy platform after the debacle of the U.S. attack on Iran's nuke facilities launched in the last throes of President Bush's Administration. Bush himself, holed up on his ranch since 2008, is losing his battle with the bottle. Across the pond, having prolonged his departure from 10 Downing Street to within a few weeks of a general election, Blair resigns and ponders his next role. But on the sidelines, an unlikely campaign to bring the former PM before an international criminal tribunal for "aggression in Iraq" is making unexpected headway...